Exploited. On CISA's list since 2021-11-03.
EyesOfNetwork Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability
CVE-2020-8655 · EyesOfNetwork EyesOfNetwork · Published 2020-02-07
How bad would it be?
7.8 out of 10
CVSS rates it high.
How likely is it to be used?
60%
Estimated chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, among the top 1% of all scored flaws (EPSS, 2026-10-29).
Is it already being used?
Yes
CISA has seen it exploited in real attacks. For US government agencies the fix is deadline passed 1641 days ago (2022-05-03).
What CISA says to do
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
EyesOfNetwork contains an improper privilege management vulnerability that may allow a user to run commands as root via a crafted Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) script to nmap7.
What the flaw is
An issue was discovered in EyesOfNetwork 5.3. The sudoers configuration is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability, allowing the apache user to run arbitrary commands as root via a crafted NSE script for nmap 7.
From the NVD.
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